Projects big and small are looking for your crowdfunding dollars this week, including a small-budget original film series, a play based on an Ursula K. Le Guin novel, a comic series that teaches math while it entertains, and a new scifi video game from the makers of Space Quest. »5/20/12 12:00pm 5/20/12 12:00pm

It's hard to pick the weirdest sequence from The Lathe of Heaven, the trippy 1979 TV movie of the Ursula LeGuin novel. This one comes pretty close, starting with a bizarre vision of alien invaders and then zipping to a well-intentioned but horrendous attempt to end racism forever. George Orr's dreams literally come… »1/16/08 12:00pm 1/16/08 12:00pm